In line with the "painting" metaphor that spurred off this and other
offshoots, I thought the following tidbit from _Human, All Too Human_,
"Assorted Opinions and Maxims," #19, might be of interest:
"_The picture of life._ -- The task of painting _the_ picture of life,
however often poets and philosophers may pose it, is nonetheless senseless:
even under the hands of the greatest of painter-thinkers all that has ever
eventuated is pictures and miniatures _out of one_ life, namely their own --
and nothing else is even possible. Something in course of becoming cannot be
reflected as a firm and lasting image, as a 'the', in something else in
course of becoming."
Steve C.
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